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serious-mindedness

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Synonyms & Antonyms of serious-mindedness

a mental state free of jesting or trifling

she approached the task with her usual serious-mindedness

Synonyms for serious-mindedness

earnest,
earnestness,
graveness,
gravity,
intentness,
seriousness,
soberness,
sobriety,
solemnity,
solemnness,
staidness

Words Related to serious-mindedness

gravitas,
humorlessness

decisiveness,
deliberation,
determination,
firmness,
purposefulness,
resoluteness,
resolve

absorption,
attentiveness,
concentration,
engrossment,
enthrallment,
immersion,
intensity

Near Antonyms for serious-mindedness

lightness,
shallowness,
superficiality

dalliance,
dilettantism

cheerfulness,
gaiety
(also gayety),
glee,
high-spiritedness,
merriment,
mirth

Antonyms for serious-mindedness

facetiousness,
flightiness,
flippancy,
frivolity,
frivolousness,
levity,
lightheartedness,
lightness,
play,
unseriousness

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“Serious-mindedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/serious-mindedness. Accessed 25 Jan. 2022.

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